Adventure (slightly) augmented by design
Part of MEXÂ Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
How are your New Year..
Minimum viable phone for an adventure?
Part of MEXÂ Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
I recently went along..
Good UX flows from thorough user research
I’ve begun reading Roger Deakin’s Wildwood. Early on, he describes a series of school trips to Beaulieu in the New Forest, where he and ot..
Iteration improves experience of sleep app
In a previous MEX podcast, I mentioned the sleep app Pzizz. It uses ‘psychoacoustics’ to put you to sleep: in simple, layman terms, soothi..
Examples of path dependence and where it might lead for smartphones
50 Things That Made The Modern Economy is a BBC World Service podcast. In short snippets of 9 minutes, Tim Harford, the FT journalis..
Defining user experience in the cold light of day
I went into the kitchen to grab something from the fridge. It was late evening and I made my way through the darkness. Then I opened t..
Getting straight to the Punkt
As I slipped the SIM card into the Punkt MP 01, I was fully aware that my other assorted devices still had wifi connectivity. Only if I le..
How can UX improvements encourage users to pivot from consuming to creating?
By Alex Guest and Marek Pawlowski
This essay is the first in a series on the intersection between digital consumption and creativity by..